Revolving toy



March 16, 1937. 5 BERMAN 2,073,919

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Patented Mar. 16, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 4 Claims.

5 ing pieces engaging projections of the center unit and being guided along the spiral track to cause the unit to revolve.

The object of this invention is to provide a toy of this character, which may be operated by a very small child and which may be manufactured at small cost to meet the demand for toys of an instructive nature.

I accomplish this object by means of the apparatus hereinafter described, set forth in the appended claims and illustratively exemplified in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a substantially longitudinal sectional view of the toy taken on lines l-I of Figure 2 which is a top plan view.

Referring to the drawing, Ill denotes a circular base comprising an upright skirt portion and inverted cone shaped bottom II. An upright spindle I2 is mounted and supported at the center of the bottom H and at its upper end is mounted the hub [3 of a spider M from which radial arms I5 project to carry a circular rim I6. The arms l5 are virtually spokes of a laterally disposed wheel from which depend a series of rods H which move in a circular path, the latter running between the rails l8 of a spiral track. The outside rail is banked and together with the inside rail, the same are attached to the bottom II at their lower ends and connected to a chute l9 at their upper ends. A ball or other rolling piece 2!] is placed in the chute I9 and rolls into the track directly behind one of the rods H. The Weight of the rolling piece 20 on the inclined spiral rails l8, causes the rod engaged by the ball and the entire rotary arrangement to revolve until the bottom of the track has been reached, and the ball is discharged onto the bottom ll.

What I claim is:

1. In a toy, a rotary member having a projection spaced from its axis, a spiral track comprising spaced rails disposed in the path of the projection on the rotary member such that a rolling piece traversing said track causes rotary movement of the member by contact against said projection.

2. In a toy, a base having an upright post, a laterally disposed wheel rotatably supported on said post and provided with spaced depending rods, a spiral track having parallel rails arranged on opposite sides of the circular path of the depending rods, and a rolling piece for said track to run behind one of said rods and cause the wheel to rotate.

3. A to-y as claimed in claim 2, including a chute leading into the track to direct the rolling I piece into the latter.

4. A toy as claimed in claim 2, in which the outside rail is banked higher than the inside rail to keep the rolling piece on the track.

SAUL BERMAN. 

